How did you use new media technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation stages?

New Media Technologies

Over the year, I have used many a new exciting technologies in order to produce high quality work. In this slide share I will go through all the technologies that I have used and why they were specifically used, whether the technology is used for planning, research or evaluation questions.

Technologies

HDV Camera, Tripod, Imac, Final Cut Express, Blogger, You Tube, Adobe Photoshop, PicMonkey, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Slideshare, Prezi, I phone, Survey Monkey ,Wordle , Glogstar, Adobe After Effect

HDV Camera In the music video we used a HDV Camera to film,

this was the most important source during the whole process of our music video as it held all our footage on the camera. The camera also helped us use different types of shots; this included shot reverse shot, medium shot and P.O.V shots. The camera itself was very simple and easy to use, after filming for a few days we didn’t have much problem with the camera. By using this camera I felt that it gave us the best possible outcome.

Tripod Another piece of equipment that we used was

the tri-pod and the camera attached to the tri-pod for a steady focus, when filming. The tri-pod gave us the ability to show a pan and tilt shot and it gave us easy move ability.

The tripod we used was very standard and everybody was given the same tripod, but this equipment was most helpful as it gave us the steady footage we needed.

IMac The Imac is the main source of all our work research, digipak

content and other constructive work that was needed. On the Mac we safari which is the internet to recover all the information that has been needed for this years course. I used it to gain information about the typical R’n’B music and what sort of mise-en-scene we might need for our music video.

The I Mac was used in the planning and producing stages of our project, as the programmes like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint was needed to help type up my evaluation work.

Overall the Imac was a useful piece of equipment in my project as it gave me the valuable to succeed in parts of the criteria.

Final Cut Express Final cut express is a good bit of equipment as this is how I

edited the Music video and without this I wouldn’t be able to produce the video.

Final cut has many essential tools to allow me edit the music video, for example the over-lay toggle clip button as this helped me adjust the opacity and the cuts between each clip.

I feel without Final cut express I wouldn’t be able to make the music video and other clips that we made like the vox pox for our research.

Blogger

Throughout Blogger has helped me produce uploaded work that is vital for my evaluation, I have used it so the examiners can see my pieces of work, On my blog there will be all my pieces of work like my video, digipak and magazine advert.

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop was used to make the

digipak, album cover and the magazine advert. It was very useful as it had many difficult techniques that was needed to provide such a good outcome. Photoshop allowed us to cropped the images and give a better lighting effect on the images.

Here is the album cover and as you can see we have edited it to look black and white we also gave it a different texture to make it more appealing.

PicMonkey PicMonkey can be used online were you can edit

images and give them a different format. PicMonkey was an alternative to Photoshop as we were having many difficulties with Photoshop and editing the correct way we wanted to. Therefore we didn’t want to waste time so we used an easier way to edit our images.

PicMonkey is very effective and gives a good outcome.

The magazine advert was edited in PicMonkey then the extras in Photoshop.

Microsoft Word Microsoft Word was mainly used to created long

documents in relation of the planning and the build up of the music video. The program enabled me to produce documents connecting to the particular location we went to and the many costumes we used throughout the music video.

When I finished creating these documents I uploaded them up on to blogspot were people can see were the planning was produced for our music video.

Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint was another form of

displaying my work, the work that I have created in PowerPoint has gave me other options of using technology. I used PowerPoint for my evaluation question and uploaded it on to my blog.

PowerPoint is a useful way were you can upload it into Slideshare were it creates a different way in presenting PowerPoint's.

Slideshare Slideshare is the form were you can upload

the PowerPoint document on to Blogger and it can give a better effect in which PowerPoint does, it makes it less boring to look at. Slideshare is very easy to use and less complicated than PowerPoint.

Slideshare gave me the ability to produce a piece of presentation work in a different way.

Prezi Prezi is an interesting way to create more fun

presentations. It give you the ability to make presentations without the boring part to look at. Prezi is very easy to use, it also gives you a different way to make presentation instead of using PowerPoint it gives you other ideas.

I used Prezi for my evaluation question and it was very useful to me, I found this helpful and interesting compare to other programs.

I Phone I Phones are very useful and technology is

developing very fast. WE used an I phone for parts of the project weather to take pictures or film parts of the music video. We used the I phone for maps and different locations they we need to find for our filming location. The pictures that we used for our digipak, album cover and magazine advert were all used on the I phone.

Glogster Glogster was used to create a mood board for

the music video it gave us initial idea about the artist and the genre of the music. Glogstar displays pieces of work very well and it gave us different ways to present our work.

Wordle Wordle is a great way to present

pieces of work, Wordle is a software which allows you to create an image with different words put together, The Wordle was created to display our audience research. This gave us an insight as to what the audience will be looking for in our music video.

As you can the bigger the word the more favorable it is.

Survey Monkey We used survey monkey to gain audience

feedback and this helped us to created different costumes for our characters in our music video. On survey monkey we had to create different questions that people could answer for example what's your favorite genre of music?

This helped us be more aware of what we should include in our music and what to include in to the footage.